Due to the constantly increasing interest in our Silverlight and WPF suites we saw the need of publishing one more service pack prior to the official Q2 release. A lot of improvements and new features are introduced following the vast amount of inquiries from you. All of the new stuff for both suites is ready for download under the users’ accounts, so download them, give them a try and you are more than welcome to share your thoughts and feedback. One new major feature is the newly added Localization support for RadUpload, RadTreeView, RadMediaPlayer, RadColorSelector, RadColorPicker and RadGridView control.   We also added a lot...

It’s again this time of the year when Sitefinity team starts packing for another Gilbane event in San Francisco, which as usual will take place in the Westin Hotel San Francisco, June 2-4. This year the focus is more than ever on the business impact of the content management solutions. The organizers have taken 4 major areas to classify discussions and presentations: Web Business & Engagement Managing Collaboration & Social Media: Internal & External Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing Content Infrastructure For the first time at this event...

As the WebUI Test Studio for Silverlight support is going to be released in a few months I was thinking of sharing a preview via a real demo simulation. If you are not familiar with RadDocking for Silverlight, we should emphasize it is one of the most complex Silverlight components out there supporting any layout you might be interested to have. You can find it building the layout of the Bug Tracker Sample Application for example. The video below shows a simulation of a user changing the layout by pure drag and drop actions. This is exactly what one ...

This is Memorial Day weekend in the United States and today represents my last day as a Developer Evangelist for Telerik.  When I joined Telerik, I knew the company mostly from their outstanding reputation as a community supporting organization.  Since joining the company I have seen another side of Telerik that I think people may overlook.  The company slogan is “deliver more than expected” and sure, plenty of companies talk the talk, but very rarely do you see a company put it in action.  I am talking about people who have a real passion to deliver a product that exceeds...

In a recent webinar, I showed an example of how you can build a superior user experience in an ASP.NET website by using RadChart for Silverlight. The Telerik Silverlight chart has animations, rich rendering, and is much more visual appealing than the “static” RadChart for ASP.NET. But while the Silverlight chart is a great way to enhance data visualizations in your ASP.NET site, how do you handle users that don’t have Silverlight installed? One approach is to implement “graceful degradation.” Graceful degradation is an important and familiar principle in web design, and essentially it means this: if you build features into...